economy, and this is the system they have now settled on, privately, late in the evening. and then consider what the president said just this afternoon. >> the bottom line is, this law is working and will work into the future. >> senior fellow at the manhattan institute, national review columnist and how medicaid fails the poor. this is unbelievable. i mean, this is from the reuters report an hour ago. health plans will estimate how much they're owed. and then they will submit that estimate to the government. once the system is built, the government and insurers can reconcile the payments made with the planned data to true up the payments. oh, joy, so it is basically an honor system if i'm reading this correctly. >> well, the basic thing to understand is it is not a bailout of the insurers, but a bailout of the president. because two weeks ago we heard from one of the top operators of the system, is that it hadn't even been built yet. >> 30 to 40% of healthcare.gov has not been built yet, we said exactly what part of it is that? and they revealed it is the payment mechanis